This case study shares research findings, methods, and recommendations to narrow the communications gap between students and student program administrators about opportunities outside the classroom with students and program administrators and increase student engagement in co-curricular opportunities.

Fiona Harvey's insight:

Really interesting and useful. All about student communications really but essential reading for anyone working with students in HE (I think it's more or less typical to any institution) it's about co curricular engagement and how students engage

Framing digital capabilities for UK HE and FE staff: frameworks review Lou McGill and Helen Beetham June 2015 The authors are responsible for the content of this review and not the owners of the frameworks and resources covered in it. If you feel that a framework has not been well represente

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), the leading professional organization devoted to advancing the quality of online learning, today announced the expansion of its Quality Scorecard suite, with the addition of three new scorecards.The OLC Quality Scorecard uses research-based benchmarks and standards of excellence to help higher education institutions evaluate their online and blended learning programs. Institutions use the scorecard to determine strengths and opportunities for improvement of their programs, and to initiate planning efforts to address areas that require enhancement.“The OLC Quality Scorecard has become the trusted tool for administrators to identify, measure and quantify elements of quality within their online education programs,” said Kathleen Ives, DM, chief executive officer and executive director, OLC. “Just as educators continue to seek out ideal learning environments and share effective practices for advancing quality, OLC will continue to expand the Quality Scorecard suite to support and guide their efforts.”In addition to giving an institution a means to convey confidence in the quality of its programs to prospective students, the scorecard can be used to demonstrate the quality of online programs to higher education accrediting bodies. Plus, it can serve as an internal planning tool for institutions launching new programs or transforming mature programs.

This tweet appeared in my stream yesterday. I used the first photo here (guy with feet on fire) as an example in my evolving course materials on how to trace things to a source on the internet. I also tracked down the other photos as well. It took barely any time at all. Maybe ten…

Fiona Harvey's insight:

This is a great article, if nothing else for the link to the resource on checking sources

Learning Literacies for the Digital Age was a research study that aimed to find out what literacies learners require and what UK HE and FE institutions are doing to support them. The completed study informs JISC and the wider UK FE and HE communities by providing a better understanding of learning literacies, how they are evolving, how requirements are changing, and how they may be supported in different contexts

Fiona Harvey's insight:

This is a few years old now but there is some really good stuff here. This was a great project and useful research and application from JISC Digital Literacies team

Digital Scholarship Guidelines from the AHA. From my educational perspective this is interesting to note that there is guidance which refers to the use of digital media in teaching and research. These are professional association guidelines for the US (History)

The Benefits of Quality Matters Certification: What the Analytics Reveal a report produced by FIU Online July 2016 (download PDF version of report) Background and Intent FIU Online engaged in research to highlight the benefits to both students and faculty when taking and teaching an online course that has received the Quality Matters certification. FIU Online leveraged the …

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Relates to Quality Matters certification. Worth keeping an eye on this as quality in online programmes is often overlooked or seen to be part of everyday activity, and there are some differences.

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